apr 13, 1957 - Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The founding members of the SCLC were Joseph Lowery, Fred Shuttleworth, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and Ralph Abernathy. Lowery was a minister of the United Methodist Church, Shuttleworth was a minister in Birmingham who fought against segregation and other forms of racism, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay right, and Abernathy was a minister who was an active leader of the Civil Rights Movement and was Margin Luther King, Jr.'s closest friend.

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